Lemmy Caution

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Like Jerry Cotton, Lemmy Caution is an FBI agent invented by a European who was first successful in a series of novels and later in a number of movies.

It was invented by the Briton Peter Cheyney . When Cheyney published the first novel, This man is dangerous, about Lemmy Caution in 1936 , he was still a police officer until the subsequent success of the novel enabled him to make a living from writing in the future.

background

After the Second World War , many French became interested in the culture of the American allies. Against this background, the French film industry discovered Peter Cheyney's popular novels as the starting material for the film series by the agent Lemmy Caution.

The director Bernard Borderie was looking for someone who should have the rough appearance of a gangster for the film adaptation and found his ideal cast in the American singer Eddie Constantine, who was then living in Paris . Constantin had only appeared in a supporting role until then. Despite his lack of acting experience, he was able to convince the audience. Lemmy Caution has been portrayed as a cheeky, provocative and resourceful macho who was never averse to whiskey, cigarettes and women. He always enjoyed a fist fight and was always successful even against an overwhelming number of opponents. Constantine played Caution so convincingly that, thanks to the constant role behavior, later films with him were also marketed under the agent name.

In contrast to the film adaptations of Cheyney's novel, Caution was portrayed by Jean-Luc Godard in Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 as a tired, aged and depressed man. Like Humphrey Bogart , Lemmy moved into his trench coat, lonely and lost in the future world. Three years earlier, Sean Connery made his debut as James Bond in James Bond - 007 Chasing Dr. No pointing the way to the big screen for a new generation of secret agents.

Lemmy Caution appeared in Udo Lindenberg's film Panische Zeiten in 1980 and in two episodes of the Austrian series Kottan determined in 1983 .

In 1989 there was Le retour de Lemmy Caution, a French TV film with Constantin as the leading actor.

Caution's last guest appearance was in 1991 in Germany Neu (n) Null . Here Godard again lets the agent reactivate at the time of German reunification .

Novels

The novels were offered by the publishers Pegasus , Lingen , Ullstein and Heyne in various translations and sometimes under different titles or in anthologies.

  • 1940: You'd be surprised.
  • 1943: You can always duck.
  • 1948: blows at first sight. Alternatively: difficult women. (Original: Poison Ivy. 1937), ISBN 978-3-453-10514-0 .
  • 1955: This man is dangerous. Alternatively: You don't steal a lady. (Original: This man is dangerous. 1936), ISBN 978-3-453-10248-4 .
  • 1955: Serenade for two pistols. (Original: Dames don't care. 1937).
  • 1955: women are not angels. Alternatively: Lemmy doesn't shoot blondes. (Original: Can ladies kill? 1938), ISBN 978-3-85286-193-7 .
  • 1954: Red Lips - Blue Beans. (Original: Don't get me wrong. 1939), ISBN 978-3-453-10479-2 .
  • 1955: 1-0 for Lemmy Caution. (Original: Your deal, my lovely. 1941), ISBN 978-3-453-10642-0 .
  • 1956: Under the spell of green eyes. Alternatively: Lemmy makes the puppets dance. (Original: Never a dull Moment. 1956), ISBN 978-3-453-10591-1 .
  • 1961: The secret files. Alternatively: Whoever digs a pit for Lemmy. (Original: I'll say she does! 1945), ISBN 978-3-453-10547-8 .

Movies

  • 1953: Under the spell of blond Satan . Alternatively: stopover in Morocco. (Original: La Môme vert-de-gris. ) - Film adaptation of Poison Ivy.
  • 1953: This man is dangerous . Alternatively: FBI is looking for Lemmy Caution. (Original: Cet homme est dangereux. ) - Film adaptation of This Man Is Dangerous.
  • 1954: Serenade for two pistols . (Original: Les femmes s'en balancent. ) - Film adaptation of Dames Don't Care.
  • 1955: Red Lips, Blue Beans. Alternatively: daughters, thieves, diamonds. (Original: Vous pigez? ) - Film adaptation of Don't Get Me Wrong.
  • 1960: Eddie goes all out . (Original: Comment qu'elle est! ) - Film adaptation of I'll Say She Does!
  • 1962: This is not for little girls . (Original: Lemmy pour les dames. ).
  • 1963: Blue beans for dessert . (Original: À toi de faire, mignonne. ) - Adaptation of Your Deal, My Lovely.
  • 1965: Lemmy Caution against Alpha 60 . (Original: Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution. )
  • 1989: Le retour de Lemmy Caution.
  • 1991: Germany new (n) zero. (Original: Allemagne 90 neuf zéro. )

References and individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lemmy Caution. In: rayonpolar.com. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (English): "En 1936, alors qu'il a le grade de lieutenant, il publie" This man is dangerous "ou il met en scène un inspecteur du FBI, dénommé Lemmy Caution, au phrasé argotique ( slang)."
  2. ^ Cet homme est dangereux (1953). In: filmsdefrance.com. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (French): "The films were adaptations of best selling thriller crime novels by Peter Cheyney and came at a time when American culture was well-received, if not adulated, by the French populace."
  3. ^ Eddie Constantine, un America in Paris… In: encinematheque.net. Archived from the original on December 31, 2010 ; accessed on April 3, 2020 (French): "Bernard Borderie, réalisateur, recherche un type qui a" une gueule de gangster "pour incarner l'agent du FBI Lemmy Caution à l'écran."
  4. ↑ Eddie Constantine. Biography. In: cineartistes.com. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (French): "En 1953, Bernard Borderie lui confie le rôle de l'agent secret Lemmy Caution dans" La môme vert-de-gris ", personnage crée par l'écrivain britannique Peter Cheyney."
  5. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: (Untitled.) In: petercheyney.co.uk. Retrieved on September 14, 2011 (English): "Discovered by Edith Piaf, he became her protégé and close friend, and she helped him launch a career as a popular recording artist."@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.petercheyney.co.uk
  6. ↑ biography. Eddie Constantine. In: cinemapassion.com. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (French): "Il débute à l'écran en 1953 et s'impose dès son second film en personnifiant le désinvolte agent du FBI, Lemmy Caution, inventé par Peter Cheyney."
  7. ↑ La Môme Vert-de-Gris. In: nanarland.com. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (French): "Constantine n'avait guère d'expérience d'acteur (un seul film à son actif) et on peut le dire: ça saute aux yeux!"
  8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: (Untitled.) In: petercheyney.co.uk. Retrieved September 14, 2011 (English): "His film career began in 1953, when he first took the role of tough American private eye Lemmy Caution."@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.petercheyney.co.uk
  9. ↑ Eddie Constantine. 1917-1993. In: cyranos.ch. Retrieved on April 3, 2020 (English): "The part of the ladykiller endowed with wit, charme and above-average self-confidence appealed to the mass ..."
  10. ↑ Whoever shoots first has more of life (Tout Feu Tout Flamme) → Lemmy Caution strikes.
  11. ↑ Eddie Constantine. 1917-1993. In: pause.pquebec.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2007 ; accessed on September 14, 2011 (French): "En 1965 le film Alphaville, dirigé par Jean-Luc Godard, détruit le mythe Lemmy Caution ..."
  12. ↑ Arnd Schirmer: Udo Chancellor Superstar. In: spiegel.de. April 14, 1980, accessed on April 3, 2020 : "Eddie Constantine, as Lemmy Caution, wrapped in an aura of melancholy, fights in the tried and tested manner ..."
  13. ↑ Le retour de Lemmy Caution. In: imdb.com. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Germany Neu (n) Null. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved April 3, 2020 .